Friends Church Sign of the Week
Number 9 in a series.
Take your burden to the Lord and leave it there.
Translation: You’ll get pie in the sky when you die.
Since this week’s sign is a quote from the gospel hymn Leave it There, I thought I would provide a musical response in the form of labor activist Joe Hill’s The Preacher and the Slave, which is a famous parody of another hymn, In the Sweet Bye and Bye. It is interesting to note that The Preacher and the Slave is the origin of the phrase “pie in the sky.” (See the Wikipedia article for the lyrics.)
Performed by Jcronk.
